Education
1908 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
1908 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
1909 first work published. 1909-1910 contributed to the periodical Russkoye bogatstvo. 1910 published his political verse and fables in Bolshevik newspaper Zvezda.
1912-1914 worked for newspaper Pravda-, simultaneously worked from 1912 for periodical Sovremennyy mir and from 1913 for Bolshevik periodical Prosveshclieniye. 1913 arrested; 1914 drafted into the army. During World War 1 served for 18 months as medical assistant on Western Front.
During Civil War front-line poet-agitator. Later worked for newspapers Izvestiya VTsIK Bednota and Pravda: in early 1920's his status in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and in the Communist Party was considerable: he played a very important role at the January 1925 All-Union Conference of Proletarian Writers, which was organized mainly to discredit fellow-traveler writers. During this period he attacked the ’’Left Arts Front” lit group, the Symbolists, the Chamber Theater and the Revol Russian Painters’ Association, accusing them of being decadent and influenced by West European Artist
At the same time repeatedly and scathingly attacked Mayakovskiy, whom he regarded as a petty bourgeois formalist. 1034, at 1st All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, made a denunciatory speech against Bukharin, his erstwhile friend. In his works invariably lauded the Revol, but even so two of his works — a satirical story and a play under the same title Kak chetyrnadtsataya diviziya v ray shla (How the 14th Division Gained Paradise) — were regarded as blasphemous and inadmissible even under the Soviet regime.
1936 his play Bogatyri (The Heroes) was removed from the repertoire of the Moscow Chamber Theater and confiscated for vulgarization and distortion of the historical past During World War' 2 his works were again published. Wrote mainly under the pseudonym Doctorate. Boyevoy.
Worked for publ houses.